June- 1 month!

Tuesday was June's one month mark of life. She passed through it the usual way- sleeping, eating, crying, playing. It was un-eventful, but today, we went to the doctor and weighed her. She has gained 1 1/2 pounds in two weeks! (She weighs 8.4) Way to go June! The average is 6-8oz a week, so she is doing great.

Last week, my mom and Gramom came to visit and we took a picture of the four generations together! June was not really liking picture-hour, so she does not have her best face on, but that's ok!

So, not much else. We are just living each day as it comes and learning as we go. Meanwhile, June is sleeping through her early days, which I am very thankful for!

Change!

Well....the super-efficiency of my life has been slightly, ok MAJORLY interrupted! No longer can I get things done quickly or zip around and do 50 things at once. Those days are over! I have slowly come to terms with this realization in the last three weeks and am now working on adjusting to this extreme change.

What a sweet, tiny blessing little June is! She came pre-programmed with many demands that she seems to understand quite thoroughly, but cannot seem to communicate with us, except by crying. Its been a challenge, but a wonderful experience all at the same time. I really don't know how to describe it, except we were not prepared AT ALL! Dan has been wonderful with everything and has to be the most helpful daddy ever! He is a diaper-changing genius and so good at swaddling! I have slowly been recovering and getting my strength back, but am working on encompassing more duties in the next few weeks.

We could never have imagined that she would bring such frustration and joy all at the same moments and we relish in her tiny features and loud voice and just count ourselves lucky to be given the gift of raising her as one of the Lord's children. All in all, we are adjusting to a new life that the Lord has prepared for us and learning to live as a little family of 6 now!

Hey June!

After about a week of c-section recovery (one more week to go until back to normal) with lots and lots of help from my mom, Dan and various family members who have come through, I am up for doing a little blogging. Here are some adorable pictures of our sweet little girl that we are so blessed to have received.

She is truly a unique little creation and we are awed every day at everything about her. I have to admit that when she came out, I was slightly shocked by all her black hair.

For some reason, I just thought she would look more like me, but she is too cute and we just love everything about her! Here she is in her first Texas Tech outfit matching with daddy and then with me after her first bath that she loved! She sleeps non-stop and things have transitioned smoothly with mom here to help so much.

What a wonderful blessing from the Lord...

She's here!

June's room - fine'

I asked Meuf Te' and she said that is most certainly how you say finished in french. And her being a fan of Marie Antoinette (being named after her very own dog), she would definitely know!

One way or another, June's room is done. And as you can see, no June.... We just received her bedding in the mail and put it on her crib and there is nothing left to do. Just endlessly, wait, trying to focus each day on our last days together alone- which by the way, we are so thankful for! But I do have to admit, that it is somewhat tiring this waiting. I suppose it is just one more chance for the Lord to teach me patience- I don't think I have still quite mastered it...

So, here is her cute little crib. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and hopefully June will be here next time I write!

Hello June? You are missing your birthday!!

So, today is little June's birthday and she is missing it- if she is anything like me, I would think she would be pretty disappointed to miss out on some spotlight time, but maybe she will be more like her dad and content to just be herself not always vying for attention :)

Regardless, I am getting a little ansy that she is not here yet and Dan has felt that way for the past two months! So, a slightly unhappy un-birthday :( But soon!

Valentine Zoo

Dan is so sweet and this year decided to start Valentine's Day early because who knows if we will make it till then since I am due in (ahh!) 5 days! (But, I am thinking I am going to be late- just a little side note). So, his first part of Valentine's Day was a surprise trip to the zoo!! It was a nice rainy and cold afternoon and we both finished work and took off to the zoo which is right by us! Here are a few of the animals we saw. Dan loved the reptiles- so weird and gross!

I loved the monkey who I threw one of my candy hearts to and Dan (anal rule-follower) got so mad that I was dis-obeying the no feeding sign that he wouldn't take a picture of me with him! You will just have to imagine... He was my favorite and he LOVED my candy heart and disected it just a few feet away from me- he was adorable! I told Dan that we have to get one but he said they catch their own feces and throw it at you, so that sounded alot worse to clean up than Vern's hair....

Anyway, annoyingly, you will just have to see me next to boring old Mr. Stork. He was pretty cute and old, but Dan was in charge of the camera, or else I would have had a picture with Jewish Marcel the Monkey, who looked like he had a yamakuh on!

Anyways, a wonderful pre- Valentine's present and one of the few last times with just the two of us! Although after, we were pretty sad about all the animals having to be caged up. They were NOT very happy guys and just paced and paced in their cages. :(